Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop, Drop and Roll!!!
 

The facts: Green Day side project - the trio adding new members; Jason White, Jason Freese and Kevin Preston.

The second nom de plume that Green Day has played under (to my knowledge) the other one being early 00's band "Network".

15 Day Tour schedule at small bars and taverns.

Single: Mother Mary

So what's with it?

After a first listen - you are certainly aware that you are listening to Billie Joe sing. And that's about all the Green Day you are going to feel in this album. This music has a really, really groovy 60's garage rock feel. The first 45 seconds of the album sound like The White Stripes resurrected Elvis and taught him the vocabulary of a sailor and then had a sit down and started jamming. And it only gets better!

The boys shed their black outfits, red ties and eyeliner and really get back to their roots. When you add in the other members, you get a lot of back - up vocals reminiscent of a garage rock version of late Motown glory day releases. Really catchy hooks and driving guitars (along with a slew of different instruments, a BLAAZZZING saxophone solo on Pieces of Truth will blow your mind) will find you nodding along and tapping your foot before you know it. The album is balanced in terms of musical content, although I found myself enjoying the latter half of the album more than the first half. The lyrical content is really quite interesting but mediocre. The first verse you hear (in that great undead Elvis voice) is:

"Sixteen and a son of a bitch
Got a gun and a strychnine twitch
Little girl on the graveyard shift
Out of control and doesn't give a ****"

and there is a song called "Red Tide", which is as far as I can tell, about a girl being a bitch and then Billie Joe blames it on her menstruation.

The band gets a little cryptic, revisiting religious themes (a la American Idiot on the song "Mother Mary".

Couple this with a few songs about them driving and you have a pretty lyrically average album.

Just to make sure I'm making this clear: you are not listening to a Green Day album. I've championed Green Day in the past on these forums at my own risk (knowing the trend of Green Day Hate). So I know that I have a history and perhaps lean more towards the favorable side- but... this is not. a. Green. Day. Album.

Album Highlights: Stop, Drop and Roll - Alligator - 27th St. Shuffle - Pieces of Truth.

I have listened to it, sounds like mediocre garage rock to me. Better than Green Day's regular stuff though, by far. They are much better when they are having fun instead of attempting vague, poorly formed political commentary.

I'm d/ling this but I can't help but get the feeling you're making this sound better than it is.

Well I don't want to put what I think of the album in terms of a final decision like; "This is the best album I've heard in awhile" or, "If you like garage rock, this band will light up your eyes" or, "This album is the pits".

So I was just giving you the gist of what the album sounded like, what you can expect lyrically, the sounds of the album - but I'm not touting it as -anything-. I like the album enough to put it on my iPod... that's all I'll really say about it in terms of how much I like it.

They didn't put Highway 1 back on it, so I never got the full album. I don't think I will either.

=Lots of songs about drinking too haha. I really love this album, all songs make me smileand sing like a dork. Green Day just having fun, imo there is nothing better than that! 60's style riffs plus traditional GD songwriting styles. Just such a fun album, you can tell they really enjoyed making it.

I've heard really amazing things about it. I hope you aren't disappointed. I'm interested in what you have to say about it, though, because I've yet to listen.

Its like Green Day meets well produced meets The Monkees....

I really liked it. Kind of like a less-polished early green day with a bit of a southern feel. Best track is definatley Alligator.